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sans drawn srom this very Treatise. These are two
Positions which I dare confidently assert, and un-
dertake to maintain.
Among all the Contradiffions with which this
Discourse is sluff’d, I lhall only desire you to ob-
lerve, that two thirds of it are spent in-litigious
Chronological Cavils, and vain Rhodomontadoes a-
gainst the Authors of our History. After which
he forgets himself so far, as to make a long Ha-
jibove all, the rangue to demonstrate the uncertainty of Chrono-
chromiogy os lOgy} ancj the weakness of those Arguments that
theBijhopsor are jrawn from ;t) either to confirm or invalidate
dreadful'the Truth of a Relation. When he finds that
Labyrinth. Chronology may be accommodated to his Hypothe-
sis, he Hies at it greedily, and triumphs as in the
Testimony of an Oracle; but every thing that
looks askew upon his Calculation, is a Trisse or
Mistake.
There is a certain Air of Ostentation spread o-
ver all his Book, which makes him on all occasi-
ons leave the Subject of his Discourse, that he
may at any rate make a vain Show of his Read-
ing. And even, not unfrequently, this itching
Desire to showhis Learning makes him utterthings
extreamly disadvantageous to the Interest of his
Opinion ; but he mull display all that he knows,
whatsoever it may cost him.
He heaps up a multitude of needless and im-
pertinent Quotations, not only to satisfiehis Va-
nity, but also to confound his Readers, and to
stun ’em with a multitude of noisie Authorities ?
’Tis plain, that he endeavours to weary People,
and to bar the Access to his Book with Heaps of
useless Digressions and empty Cavils, which serve
only to encrease the Obscurity and Intricacy of
the controverted Question. He very seldom pur-
sues his Design closely, and oftentimes picks up
same trivial Story which Chance throws in his
way,
sans drawn srom this very Treatise. These are two
Positions which I dare confidently assert, and un-
dertake to maintain.
Among all the Contradiffions with which this
Discourse is sluff’d, I lhall only desire you to ob-
lerve, that two thirds of it are spent in-litigious
Chronological Cavils, and vain Rhodomontadoes a-
gainst the Authors of our History. After which
he forgets himself so far, as to make a long Ha-
jibove all, the rangue to demonstrate the uncertainty of Chrono-
chromiogy os lOgy} ancj the weakness of those Arguments that
theBijhopsor are jrawn from ;t) either to confirm or invalidate
dreadful'the Truth of a Relation. When he finds that
Labyrinth. Chronology may be accommodated to his Hypothe-
sis, he Hies at it greedily, and triumphs as in the
Testimony of an Oracle; but every thing that
looks askew upon his Calculation, is a Trisse or
Mistake.
There is a certain Air of Ostentation spread o-
ver all his Book, which makes him on all occasi-
ons leave the Subject of his Discourse, that he
may at any rate make a vain Show of his Read-
ing. And even, not unfrequently, this itching
Desire to showhis Learning makes him utterthings
extreamly disadvantageous to the Interest of his
Opinion ; but he mull display all that he knows,
whatsoever it may cost him.
He heaps up a multitude of needless and im-
pertinent Quotations, not only to satisfiehis Va-
nity, but also to confound his Readers, and to
stun ’em with a multitude of noisie Authorities ?
’Tis plain, that he endeavours to weary People,
and to bar the Access to his Book with Heaps of
useless Digressions and empty Cavils, which serve
only to encrease the Obscurity and Intricacy of
the controverted Question. He very seldom pur-
sues his Design closely, and oftentimes picks up
same trivial Story which Chance throws in his
way,